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1ACross and Pixie Dust are happy to present “What the Dickens!”, an exclusive grid for our members and readers.

The online interactive version can be completed and submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD 17th March 2018.. All those who submit entries have a chance to enter our leaderboard for 2018. Here’s the current leaderboard

Annotations for the puzzle will be discussed at 1ACross on Sunday, March 18, 2018.

Happy solving.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO SAVE, TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ASKED AT THE END OF THE PUZZLE

Here’s the link to the interactive puzzle

Here’s a link to the PDF

By Sowmya

Sowmya is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and independent financial consultant based in the Middle East (Bahrain). She is a puzzle editor at Amuselabs. She has set over 1,300 crosswords for various publications including over 1000 mini crosswords, cryptic crosswords (under the pseudonym Hypatia for The Hindu) and themed crosswords for Cat.a.lyst (part of The Hindu Businessline). Sowmya runs the Facebook group 1Across where seasoned cruciverbalists interact while setting and solving clues. She has published three compilations of crosswords viz Cryptic Crossroads Volumes 1, 2 and 3. She Tweets cryptic clues daily @somsram

One thought on “What the Dickens!”
  1. Thanks, Sowmyaji . You took me back to my Bombay days when my first movie was A tale of Two Cities in Eros Cinema. I enjoyed solving this themed puzzle. One of cours, needs Th Newnes crossword dictionary at hand, only to verify the spelling of the characters and titles.

    Like PGW , Dickens too had this knack of naming his characters unusually.

    Oh, will there be any more PGWs and Charles Dickens ?

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